re: #47 Targetpractice

The impression given today is that it’s going to be all or nothing, because the Court has no desire to knock down the mandate and then entangle itself in deciding what stays and what goes, nor do they trust a filibuster-prone Congress to do so in a timely fashion.

I gotta find the article over at TPM I read earlier, but it’s conclusion that all the cheering and dancing by conservatives who seem convinced that today’s hearing “proves” that the law will be struck down very well could be misdirection. That the conservative justices who upheld this law likewise grilled the administration mercilessly about the law before coming back and ruling in its favor.

From Scalia’s comments they don’t know what all is in the bill anyway, so that makes sense. If it’s upheld in entirety or thrown out in entirety, the GOP might be sorry they went this route. Democrats could rally around the popular shit that I mentioned being thrown out. What will the GOP say? We didn’t mean for all of the good shit to be thrown away and we promise to get it back?